Habakkuk 1:4 Cross References

Habakkuk 1:4

4: The law has become paralyzed and useless, and there is no justice given in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, and justice is perverted with bribes and trickery.

Psalms 119:126

  1. LORD, it is time for you to act, for these evil people have broken your law.

Job 21:7

  1. "The truth is that the wicked live to a good old age. They grow old and wealthy.

Isaiah 1:21

  1. See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.
  2. Once like pure silver, you have become like worthless slag. Once so pure, you are now like watered-down wine.
  3. Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.

Psalms 94:20

  1. Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side--leaders who permit injustice by their laws?
  2. They attack the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Jeremiah 12:1

  1. LORD, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. Now let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?

Ezekiel 9:9

  1. Then he said to me, "The sins of the people of Israel and Judah are very great. The entire land is full of murder; the city is filled with injustice. They are saying, `The LORD doesn't see it! The LORD has forsaken the land!'

Exodus 23:2

  1. "Do not join a crowd that intends to do evil. When you are on the witness stand, do not be swayed in your testimony by the opinion of the majority.

Isaiah 59:13

  1. We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
  2. Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.
  3. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries to live a godly life is soon attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find that there was no justice.

Isaiah 5:20

  1. Destruction is certain for those who say that evil is good and good is evil; that dark is light and light is dark; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.

Ezekiel 22:25

  1. Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.
  2. Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
  3. Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
  4. And your prophets announce false visions and speak false messages. They say, `My message is from the Sovereign LORD,' when the LORD hasn't spoken a single word to them. They repair cracked walls with whitewash!
  5. Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.

Hosea 10:4

  1. They spout empty words and make promises they don't intend to keep. So perverted justice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer's field.

Amos 5:12

  1. For I know the vast number of your sins and rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Deuteronomy 16:19

  1. You must never twist justice or show partiality. Never accept a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and corrupt the decisions of the godly.

Psalms 58:1

  1. Justice--do you rulers know the meaning of the word? Do you judge the people fairly?
  2. No, all your dealings are crooked; you hand out violence instead of justice.

Exodus 23:6

  1. "Do not twist justice against people simply because they are poor.

Romans 3:31

  1. Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.

Acts 7:59

  1. And as they stoned him, Stephen prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

Jeremiah 37:14

  1. "That's not true!" Jeremiah protested. "I had no intention of doing any such thing." But Irijah wouldn't listen, and he took Jeremiah before the officials.
  2. They were furious with Jeremiah and had him flogged and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary. Jonathan's house had been converted into a prison.
  3. Jeremiah was put into a dungeon cell, where he remained for many days.

Micah 3:1

  1. Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
  2. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  3. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

Matthew 26:59

  1. Inside, the leading priests and the entire high council were trying to find witnesses who would lie about Jesus, so they could put him to death.
  2. But even though they found many who agreed to give false witness, there was no testimony they could use. Finally, two men were found
  3. who declared, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the Temple of God and rebuild it in three days.'"
  4. Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, "Well, aren't you going to answer these charges? What do you have to say for yourself?"
  5. But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to him, "I demand in the name of the living God that you tell us whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God."

Jeremiah 5:27

  1. Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And the result? Now they are great and rich.
  2. They are well fed and well groomed, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.
  3. Should I not punish them for this?" asks the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself against a nation such as this?

Micah 2:1

  1. How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
  2. When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!

Matthew 27:1

  1. Very early in the morning, the leading priests and other leaders met again to discuss how to persuade the Roman government to sentence Jesus to death.
  2. Then they bound him and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.

Acts 7:52

  1. Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

Micah 7:2

  1. The godly people have all disappeared; not one fair-minded person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, even setting traps for their own brothers.
  2. They go about their evil deeds with both hands. How skilled they are at using them! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with money and influence pay them off, and together they scheme to twist justice.
  3. Even the best of them is like a brier; the straightest is more crooked than a hedge of thorns. But your judgment day is coming swiftly now. Your time of punishment is here.

Psalms 59:4

  1. Despite my innocence, they prepare to kill me. Rise up and help me! Look on my plight!

James 2:6

  1. And yet, you insult the poor man! Isn't it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
  2. Aren't they the ones who slander Jesus Christ, whose noble name you bear?

Acts 23:12

  1. The next morning a group of Jews got together and bound themselves with an oath to neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
  2. There were more than forty of them.
  3. They went to the leading priests and other leaders and told them what they had done. "We have bound ourselves under oath to neither eat nor drink until we have killed Paul.

Mark 7:9

  1. Then he said, "You reject God's laws in order to hold on to your own traditions.

Psalms 59:2

  1. Rescue me from these criminals; save me from these murderers.

Matthew 23:34

  1. I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. You will kill some by crucifixion and whip others in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city.
  2. As a result, you will become guilty of murdering all the godly people from righteous Abel to Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.
  3. I assure you, all the accumulated judgment of the centuries will break upon the heads of this very generation.

Psalms 94:3

  1. How long, O LORD? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?

Matthew 27:25

  1. And all the people yelled back, "We will take responsibility for his death--we and our children!"
  2. So Pilate released Barabbas to them. He ordered Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip, then turned him over to the Roman soldiers to crucify him.

Jeremiah 26:21

  1. When King Jehoiakim and the army officers and officials heard what he was saying, the king sent someone to kill him. But Uriah heard about the plot and escaped to Egypt.
  2. Then King Jehoiakim sent Elnathan son of Acbor to Egypt along with several other men to capture Uriah.
  3. They took him prisoner and brought him back to King Jehoiakim. The king then killed Uriah with a sword and had him buried in an unmarked grave.)

Amos 5:7

  1. You wicked people! You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the poor and oppressed. Righteousness and fair play are meaningless fictions to you.

Psalms 22:16

  1. My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Jeremiah 26:8

  1. But when Jeremiah had finished his message, saying everything the LORD had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him. "Kill him!" they shouted.

Psalms 82:1

  1. God presides over heaven's court; he pronounces judgment on the judges:
  2. "How long will you judges hand down unjust decisions? How long will you shower special favors on the wicked?
  3. "Give fair judgment to the poor and the orphan; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
  4. Rescue the poor and helpless; deliver them from the grasp of evil people.
  5. But these oppressors know nothing; they are so ignorant! And because they are in darkness, the whole world is shaken to the core.

1 Kings 21:13

  1. Then two scoundrels accused him before all the people of cursing God and the king. So he was dragged outside the city and stoned to death.

Jeremiah 12:6

  1. Even your own brothers, members of your own family, have turned on you. They have plotted, raising a cry against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak.

Isaiah 59:2

  1. But there is a problem--your sins have cut you off from God. Because of your sin, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.
  2. Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your mouth is full of lies, and your lips are tainted with corruption.
  3. No one cares about being fair and honest. Their lawsuits are based on lies. They spend their time plotting evil deeds and then doing them.
  4. They spend their time and energy spinning evil plans that end up in deadly actions.
  5. They cheat and shortchange everyone. Nothing they do is productive; all their activity is filled with sin. Violence is their trademark.

Psalms 11:3

  1. The foundations of law and order have collapsed. What can the righteous do?"

Jeremiah 38:4

  1. So these officials went to the king and said, "Sir, this man must die! That kind of talk will undermine the morale of the few fighting men we have left, as well as that of all the people, too. This man is a traitor!"
  2. So King Zedekiah agreed. "All right," he said. "Do as you like. I will do nothing to stop you."
  3. So the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard. It belonged to Malkijah, a member of the royal family. There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.
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